Day Out With Thomas

This past weekend Josh and I took the kids to A Day Out With Thomas at the Depot in Duluth. Our boys love Thomas the Train. It's one of the only shows/movies that Eli will sit down for a long period of time and watch. And Gabriel just loves trains and loves anything that has to do with engines and working so he is always up for watching a Thomas movie (it's actually what we're doing right now!). It's also the one show on PBS on the weekends that we try not to miss, just because they love it so much and we don't own any of the new Thomas movies... you know, the ones where the engines are actually talking, not just figurines with a narrator... 

Because of a little misunderstanding between Josh and I, we ended up with some very early tickets for the train ride. As in I was up at 5:30AM sort of thing getting ready for this thing... BUT, in the end it actually worked out perfect!!! There was so many things to see and do that we were done just in time for lunch! I just made sure that Josh picked up some coffee for me before hand so I wasn't sleeping the whole day :)

This is Josh and the boys when we first got to the Depot. The boys were so excited to see the trains they weren't really interested in taking a picture!

We had a little bit of time before the Thomas ride started so we walked around a bit and Gabriel was in heaven looking at all the trains! 

Then we got to see Thomas! Oh the boys were so excited! Lol, they wouldn't even look at me, they would only look at Thomas! Haha! Oh well!

Thank goodness for the professional guys there! We actually got a family picture and the kids were actually looking! Extremely rare ;)

We got to sit on the second level of the train which Gabriel especially thought was pretty awesome!

And then the ride started!

The boys loved it!!! Especially the part where we got to go really close to Lake Superior! 

After the ride we went inside again...

Gabriel got to look at some trains...

And they had TONS of stuff for the kids to do!

Gabriel LOVED Sir Topham Hatt!

Then outside they had free face painted and one of those big puffy blow up slides!

It was a super fun day and the boys loved every minute of it!